Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment the NHS has made of the potential benefits and disadvantages of the use of Doppler scans in preventing stillbirths.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) which advises Ministers and the National Health Service in all four countries about all aspects of screening is currently looking at the evidence for a variety of tests (including doppler scans) and treatments to see if they would be able to help to reduce stillbirths. The UK NSC will evaluate the benefits and risks of each test and treatment against its internationally recognised criteria before making a recommendation on their introduction.